McGill linguists will be heading to Portland, Oregon this winter for the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Presenters include:
- Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine – On the position of focus adverbs
- Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Theodore Levin, Coppe van Urk – Voice morphology as extraction marking
- Daniel Goodhue & Michael Wagner – The effect of the contradiction contour on the interpretation of ambiguous yes-no responses
- Michael David Hamilton – Ditransitives and ”possessor raising” in Mi’gmaq
- Michael David Hamilton & Brandon Fry – Algonquian Long-Distance Agreement: a syntactic account
- Hadas Kotek – A new compositional semantics for wh-questions
There will also be a tutorial:
- Alan Bale, Jessica Coon, Joel Dunham, Kyle Gorman, Michael Wagner – LingSync and ProsodyLab-Aligner: Tools for Linguistic Fieldwork and Experimentation
…and McGill linguists presenting at the sub-session of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA):
- Elizabeth Carolan & Jessica Coon – Negation in Chuj progressives
- Lauren Eby Clemens & Jessica Coon – Deriving Mayan V1: A fresh look at Chol